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Programme structure: Music with Innovation (MArts) - what's running in 2018/19

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type III: Professional in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

Minimum requirement of pass mark 40% in each unit.

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Creativity and Innovation INOV30001 10 Mandatory TB-1
Transdisciplinary Group Project 3: Doing something completely new INOV30003 40 Mandatory TB-4
New Venture Creation INOV30004 10 Mandatory TB-2
LIST B: Remaining options from LIST B or LIST C
Advanced Technical Studies MUSI30113 20 Optional TB-2
Musicology Project 1 MUSI30063 20 Optional TB-1
Composition Project MUSI30064 20 Optional TB-1
Studio Project MUSI30065 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Performance MUSI30066 20 Optional TB-4
Aesthetics and Criticism MUSI30029 20 Optional TB-1
Extended Study: Musicology MUSI30058 40 Optional TB-4
Extended Study: Composition Portfolio MUSI30059 40 Optional TB-4
Extended Study: Studio MUSI30060 40 Optional TB-4
Extended Study: Performance MUSI30061 40 Optional TB-4
Musicology Project 2 MUSI30067 20 Optional TB-2
Editing Project MUSI30139 20 Optional TB-1,TB-2
Analytical Techniques I: Schenkerian Approaches MUSI30050 20 Optional TB-2
At least one from LIST C
The Film Musical MUSI39011 20 Optional TB-1
Music in Soviet Russia 1917-1991 MUSI30079 20 Optional TB-2
African-American Music in the 20th Century MUSI30105 20 Optional TB-1
Music and Sex MUSI30120 20 Optional TB-2
Opera & Politics MUSI30129 20 Optional TB-2
Music in Times of War MUSI30128 20 Optional TB-2
Inside Medieval Music MUSI30122 20 Optional TB-1
Music with Innovation (BA)   120      

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
  • To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

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